THE SCOTTISH TERRIER. I I 



modern fox-terrier, but with shorter and rounder head; the color of 

 their hard, wiry coat, mostly sandy; the face free from long hair, 

 although some showing a beard ; and the small ears, carried in most 

 instances semi-erect, in some pricked. The true old Scotch terrier 

 should be a stoutly-built dog, leggy in comparison with the Skye, 

 Dandle or Aberdeen, varying in size, as all breeds little cared for do, 

 but easily to be kept near to a standard of fifteen pounds to eighteen 

 pounds, which I hold to be the most useful for a working 'varmint' 

 dog, even if he is not wanted to go to ground. 



"The head rather short, and the skull somewhat round; the jaws 

 being strong, and also short, more or less bearded; a long, lean punish- 

 ing jaw, as the phrase goes, is a modern feature in terriers of any variety, 

 and the idea is often carried to great excess. 



" The eyes bright and keen, piercing through short, shaggy hair. 



" The ears small, covered with soft, short hair, semi-erect, falling 

 over at the tip. 



'• The neek short and strong. 



"The ehest moderately deep; ribs strong, the back ones fairly 

 developed; the back short as a fox-terrier's, with strong loins and 

 good, muscular, square buttocks. 



" The legs stout, well covered with hard hair; stifles only moderately 

 bent; forelegs straight, all covered with hard, short hair; the feet com- 

 pact, and hard in the sole, and the claws strong. 



'•The tail, if undocked, eight inches to ten inches long, bush-like, 

 not fringed, the covering being hard hair. 



'• The prevailing eolor sandy ; sometimes a dark grizzle ; and I have 

 occasionally seen them brindled. 



" The coat hard and very dense, from one inch, or rather less than 

 two inches, in length at the greatest. 



" I give the above, written from memory, as a rough description of 

 the Scotch terrier, as kept by my father, and such as were commonly 

 met with in the West of Scotland some forty years ago." 



Whinstone again quotes Myrick's " House Dogs and 



